The Hany Salaam family legacy continues with HRH Princess Ghida

 

The Hany Salaam family name has been omnipresent in the world of politics, business but also philanthropy and it seems that the apple doesn't fall from the tree. Businessman and well known diplomat Hany Salaam´s daughter HRH Princess Ghida Talal has been keeping up with the family legacy by being a Chairperson of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation. 

At the inauguration of the expansion of King Hussein Cancer Center

 

After graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, HRH Princess Ghida Talal pursued a career in journalism in London.  During her time at Georgetown, her father Hany Salaam inaugurated the The Salaam Intercultural Resource Center that houses the MSFS (Master of Science in Foreign Services) programme. This center was established by a grant from the Salaam Foundation in 1989 by former president Jimmy Carter to help students get together in a cozy environment as well as organize debates and educational activities to enhance their academic experience. 

Princess Ghida has served two terms on the Board of Regents of her alma mater, Georgetown University, and currently serves on the Board of Georgetown’s Master of Science in Foreign Service programs. Her marriage to HRH Prince Talal Bin Muhammad of Jordan, a cancer survivor, pushed the princess into having a more active role in the philanthropic world to follow in her father, Hany Salaam´s footsteps. Princess Ghida joined the Board of the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Scholar Rescue Fund in 2007 and the Board of the IIE in January 2013. She played a role in launching the Iraq Scholar Rescue Project, an IIE initiative that aims to rescue persecuted scholars from Iraq and earned IIE’s Humanitarian Award for International Cooperation in 2008. Princess Ghida is also an active member of the Clinton Global Initiative and the Honorary Chairperson of the Jordan Society for Pediatric Oncology. Princess Ghida is also a board member of the Jordanian National Gallery of Fine Arts and the Honorary Chairperson of the Jordanian Swimming Federation.

Princess Ghida also dipped her toes into the political world by putting her degree at the service of the Kingdom of Jordan as the late King Hussein asked her to establish the International Press Office of the Royal Hashemite Court and to become his Press Secretary.  This step came with no surprise as her father; Hany Salaam was a presidential envoy under the governments of Lebanese presidents Suleiman Franjieh, Elias Sarkis and Amin Gemayel and headed the delegation that negotiated with the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, securing the peace accords (known as Taif) which ended the Lebanese Civil War in 1989.


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